LETTER: New UConn AD's pay is symptom of odd priorities

Could someone please explain why citizens are going to be paying in excess of $450,000 a year to an athletic director of a state university?

This is not about Warde Manuel, the University of Connecticut's new athletic director or anyone else who might have that job. It is about reasonable compensation for a state employee at a time of fiscal challenges, state job cuts and debt.

I always thought a university was about scholarship, and that athletics were extracurricular. The new athletic director's compensation package indicates that those who run UConn have different priorities.

It is fun to have winning teams and all the more so when they bring recognition to the university.

But, shouldn't it be kept within reason?

As parents struggle to make tuition payments, maybe they should ask where their money is going.